> On Mar 24, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 24, 2016, at 4:34 PM, Chris Bowers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> It seems to me that most use cases for ipv6 multi-homing with 
>> provider-assigned addresses only need to route based on source address when 
>> the destination prefix is the default route.  So why not require that source 
>> prefixes can only be paired up with the default destination prefix ::/0?
> 
> When what one has in mind is an egress route, that probably makes sense. 
> However, it precludes an entire class of use cases mentioned in the use case 
> draft. Why do that?

Let me give you an obvious variant. Imagine, if you will, that I have a PA 
prefix from each of N ISPs, and therefore a default route to each of N ISPs. 
Imagine also that I have a particular prefix that I would like to route through 
via a given one of those N ISPs, in the special case that I happen to have been 
smart enough to use that source prefix. So now I have N+1 source/destination 
routes - unless you tie it to default routes.

A premature optimization usually breaks things...

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